Hand washing-rubber



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HAND WASHING RUBBER.

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JAMES VILLIAM VILLIAMS,

HAND WASHI OF LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

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SPECIFICATION forming part oi Letters Patent No. 329,350, dated October27, 1885.

Application led August 23, 1884. Serial No. 141,310.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JAMES WILLTAM WILL- IAMS, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State ofKentucky, have invented new and useful Improvements in HandXVashing-Rubbers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to those devices which, while being used assubstitutes for the knuckles of the person in washing clothes upon thecommon wash-board, have also a soap-receptacle provided with aperforated bottom, the class being known in Patent Office classicationas Hand-Rubbers-Laundry.

The object of my improvement is to produce a han-d washing-rubber devicehaving a stiff rubbing perforated soap-retainer, which shall be combinedwith a soap receiving and covering pocket of fabric or exible material,and wherein the hand in washing may either grasp a fiange of saidsoap-retainer or grip the flexible pocket, whereby a rigid rubbingperforated surface practically brings the soap in direct contact withthe clothes to be washed without undue waste.

The construction for carrying out this object is hereinafter fully setforth with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lrepresents the device in perspective, the canvas sack being grasped by ahu- :man hand; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section of the same, and Fig. 3 across-section.

The device is made up of a rigid rubbingbottom, A, having corrugations aand holes or perforations b, upon which rests interiorly a cake of soap,B, so as to be brought in sufficient contact with the wetted. clothes togenerate lather or suds, thus practically bringing the soap in contactwith the clothes. To this bottom A a soap-containing covering pocket orsack, C, open at the top, made of canvas or other suitable material, isattached by a clamp-lap, c, of the side rim, d, of the rigid bottom.rThe device is made to receive a standard kind of soap, and as thestandard is changed in shape, so may the shape of the device be changed.The rigid rubbing-bottom may be made of Wood, india-rubber, guttapercha,or zinc, and may have any suitable kind of rubbing-corrugations, (or thecorrugations may be dispensed with,) and its perfora- (No model.)

tions b may be large or small and of any number or form. The cake ofsoap is placed in the sack or pocket and rests upon the rigid perforatedcorrugated botf om. Then the flexible sack is grasped by its mouth I) byhand, and the device rubbed on the clothes, in place of using theknuckles of the operator. In so doing the contained soap receives enoughWater to make suds, and is not directly exposed to rubbing or frictionover its whole surface, furnishing only so much soap as is necessary tomake a required quantity of suds, for as the perforated corrugatedbottom comes in contact with the Wet clothes and the water in the tubthe soap becomes saturated through the openings b in the bottom of theholder, an ample amount of suds is produced, which are immediately andthoroughly rubbed into the clothes by means of the corrugations actingupon the clothes. As the soap in the exible sack holder diminishes inquantity another cake can be placed in the sack or pocket on top of theremnants, and so on, and thus none of the soap is unnecessarily wasted.The pocket may be used as a grasp, as shown, and the device is rubbedover the clothes as a substitute for the knuckles.

I have described the flexible sack as forming the hand-grasp for thedevice; but the sides of the rim d may be provided with handhelds, orthe rim may be turned out, so as to form grasps or anges c. In eithercase the device forms a Wash-board carried by the hand, so that thelatter is not in contact with the fixed wash-board, because the handdevice is rubbed on the clothes, which are placed piece by piece on theusual corrugated wasliboard and in its function is auxiliary to the washboard. In fact, this device is used precisely as the cake of soap isused in the hand on the wash-board, but with the advantage of using arigid rubbing perforated Soaping-surface upon the clothes. foratedrubbing-bottom forms a shallow rigid pan covered with a flexible pocket,which, while serving to cover and hold the soap in the pan, may serve asthe handle of the device, the two parts being secured together in anysuitable way so as to leave the rubbing-surface free. In the drawingsthis connection is shown as being made by folding the edges of The per-IOO the sack in a seam with the edgesof the rim of the pan, as being asimple and effective binder for the flexible pocket.

It Will be understood that Whether the de- Viee is grasped and held bythe side flanges of the perforated soap-retainer or by the coveringexible pocket, the hand Will extend over the cake of soap and keep itpressed up to the perforated rubbing-surface as it wears away.

I claim- 1. The combination, in a hand-rubber for Washing purposes, of aflexible pocket and a rigid perforated bottom connected to one end ofsaid pocket, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination7 in a hand-rubber for Washing purposes, of areceptacle or pocket JAMIIs WILLIAM WILLIAMS.

Witnesses:

J oIIN T. CANAN, P. J. BoTTs.

